Casualty Lieutenant CORY-WRIGHT, JONATHAN FRANCIS Service Number 312996 Died 09/04/1945 Aged 20 Scots Guards Son of Geoffrey and Felicity Cory-Wright, of Brancaster, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. His brother Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright also died on service. Buried at RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Number of casualties: 3183 Cemetery/memorial reference: 12. J. 9. See cemetery plan
See also, his brothers: 72690 Anthony John Julian CORY-WRIGHT, 181 Field Regiment Royal Artillery 326833 (2701871) David Arthur CORY-WRIGHT, Scots Guards 89355 Michael CORY-WRIGHT, Royal Artillery Cory-Wright baronets - Wikipedia The present Baronet is the son of Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright (1916–1944) and Susan Esterel Elwes. Captain Cory-Wright was the eldest son of Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, the 3rd Baronet Cory-Wright.[2] Captain Cory-Wright was killed in action on 26 June 1944, aged 27, at Saint-Manvieu, Normandy in France, when the present Baronet was only six months old.[3] His mother remarried, in 1949, to Lt.-Col. Jocelyn Eustace Gurney.[2] 50088 Jocelyn Eustace GURNEY, DSO, MC & Bar, Welsh Guards
J.F. Cory-Wright Eton College Cricket XI (top row 3rd from right) The Tatler & Bystander 24th June 1942
Thanks Guy. Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright... Person Page Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright b. 19 March 1925, d. 9 April 1945
Army Number: 2701870 Personal Number: 312996 Rank: Lieutenant Name: Jonathan Francis CORY-WRIGHT Unit: Scots Guards London Gazette : 19 May 1944 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36519/supplement/2278/data.pdf The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts.: — 24th Mar. 1944:— FOOT GUARDS. S. G'ds 2701870 Jonathan Francis CORY-WRIGHT (312996)